U+51FF "凿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+51FF "凿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to chisel," "to bore," or "to dig," and it can also refer to a chisel or a mortise as a noun, reflecting its practical use in carpentry and stonework. Its composition combines the radical for "metal" or "gold" (金, jīn) with a phonetic component, and it is commonly found in classical and modern texts related to crafting, mining, or creating holes, such as in the idiom "凿壁偷光" (záo bì tōu guāng), which tells the story of a scholar who chiseled a hole in a wall to borrow light for studying.